Coli

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Coli is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In English, recorded as Escherichia coli, a Gram-negative bacterium commonly found in the lower intestine of warm-blooded organisms.

rarermore common
  • CLChile≈1 in 101K(inferred from the name graph)
  • BRBrazil1 in 107K
  • ARArgentina1 in 192K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (measured from records)

1,981 people

Sources
74 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 7.0K (inferred from the name graph)

Kosovo, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Escherichia coli, a Gram-negative bacterium commonly found in the lower intestine of warm-blooded organisms.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

How Coli is read(measured from records)

Coli is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • Spanish40%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Coli in Spanish.

  • Portuguese23%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Coli in Portuguese.

  • English16%

    Escherichia coli, a Gram-negative bacterium commonly found in the lower intestine of warm-blooded organisms.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Italian6.6%

    inflection of colare:

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

    redução popular e coloquial de Nicoli.

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

    var. de Coli ou forma pl. de Colli.

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

    Variante di Cola

    as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani

  • French6.4%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Coli in French.

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Coli counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Coli is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil1,9811 in 107K2KColi65
IT Italy≈1,200 est.≈1 in 50KlistedColi74
UY Uruguay3231 in 10K323Coli17
XK Kosovo≈270 est.≈1 in 7K3—2
AR Argentina2371 in 192K237Coli36
CL Chile≈180 est.≈1 in 101K1Coli29
CV Cape Verde≈33 est.≈1 in 18K—Coli1

1,981 people counted by IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Coli is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hindi surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Çoli, Çolï

  • English surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Australia, Germany

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Colì, Çoli, Colí

  • French surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Italy, United States, Belgium

    Also written Colî, Colì, Colí

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Colí, Colì

  • Swahili surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Italy, South Africa

    Also written Colì, Çoli

  • Albanian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Albania, Kosovo

    Also written Tsoli, Çoli

30 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Coli is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Latin, genitive singular of cōlum (“colander, strainer”)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

18501900195020002050François Coli, b. 1881Angelina Jolie, b. 1975Ruud Adrianus Jolie, b. 1976Wouter Jolie, b. 1983Aurora Jolie, b. 1988Maddox Jolie, b. 2001Valentina Jolie, b. 2003Zahara Jolie, b. 2005Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt, b. 2006Vivienne Jolie, b. 2008
  • François Colib. 1881FRFrench aviator (1881-1927)
  • Angelina Jolieb. 1975USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress, humanitarian and filmmaker (born 1975)
  • Ruud Adrianus Jolieb. 1976NLnot in their usual nameDutch musician
  • Wouter Jolieb. 1983NLnot in their usual nameDutch field hockey player
  • Aurora Jolieb. 1988USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress and pornographic actress
  • Maddox Jolieb. 2001KHnot in their usual nameactor and producer
  • Valentina Jolieb. 2003ITnot in their usual nameItalian actress, model and dancer
  • Zahara Jolieb. 2005USnot in their usual nameadopted daughter of Angelina Jolie
  • Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pittb. 2006USnot in their usual namedaughter of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt
  • Vivienne Jolieb. 2008FRnot in their usual namedaughter of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 26 sources across 18 countries.

Official registers attesting Coli
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)—3#9,946
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)20051—
CL ChileSRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021)19471—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)19941—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)19821—

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Coli mean, and where does it come from?
Escherichia coli, a Gram-negative bacterium commonly found in the lower intestine of warm-blooded organisms. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Coli have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 2.0 thousand people named Coli, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled coli.
How common is the name Coli?
In Brazil, the national register counted 1,981 people named Coli, about 1 in 107 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Coli”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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